Google announced a rebranding of its online store of augmented reality stickers today, with the name changing officially to Playground as part of the Pixel 3 hardware event that just wrapped in New York City. In addition to the rebranding, Google is launching four new packs of these AR animations and fittingly calling them “Playmoji.”
Initially announced last fall as AR Stickers, these virtual animations were similar to the lenses and filters that Snapchat popularized a few years back. But a key difference is that these are entirely in 3D and are deployed with a much smarter sense of spatial and object recognition, thanks to Google’s advances in artificial intelligence. Google launched Strangers Things stickers, as well as a pack for S…
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